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From a master of family dynamics comes this vivid tale of two misfits who find each other while stumbling toward their own true identities. In 1958, eight-year-old Danny Lim has been sent to buy cigarettes for his father, when he realizes that he has lost the money. Frantic, he rushes through Vancouver's Chinatown and behind a nightclub, where he sees Miss Val, a long-time burlesque dancer. Danny is enraptured with her sequined garters and silk robe, and Val, touched by his fascination, gives him a pack of cigarettes and her silk belt.

Do you often find yourself asking "Where does all my time go”, then find yourself frazzled in the seeming whirlwind of uncompleted tasks, feeling stressed and overwhelmed? Well, fret no more, because Time Management for Adults with ADHD is to the rescue! With over a decade of experience in the science of human behavior, Board Certified Behavior Analyst Jen Lee takes you on an adventure exploring more than 31 simple-yet-proven tools, techniques, and strategies tailored to help individuals with ADHD manage their time, overcome procrastination, and hone in on their superpower now!

Finalist for the 2024 Forest of Reading Evergreen Book Award and the City of Vancouver Book Award. Named a Best Book of 2023 by the Globe and Mail and Apple Books Canada A TODAY Show Recommended Read This beautifully intimate memoir-in-pieces uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop...

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2026 FINALIST FOR THE JIM DEVA PRIZE FOR WRITING THAT PROVOKES FINALIST FOR THE PETER ROBINSON AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL From the bestselling author of Superfan comes a haunting novel about the demons passed down through...

What if the most important part of making art isn't the "making" at all—but the conversation that happens in between? Every week, Jen Lee and Tim Manley picked up the phone to do what they do best: talk it out. As co-writers, collaborators, and friends, their bond was forged in the "10 Letters Project," and now they’re letting you eavesdrop on their most honest creative rituals. Just Between You & Me is a weekly window into the messy, beautiful, and often hilarious reality of the artist’s life. It’s unpolished, it’s real, and it’s exactly what you need to hear when your own ...

You have a message that matters—but is anyone actually listening? In a world of constant noise, clarity is your only superpower. Join communication strategist and media producer Jen Lee for Get Your Message Out, a limited series designed to strip away the fluff and get to the heart of your story. In these concise, "no-filler" episodes, Jen shares the exact questions she asks her top-tier collaborators to help them move from being overlooked to being understood. If you’re a creator with something to say, this is your toolkit for making sure it lands.

You pass them in the village and sit near them at the diner—but everyone in the Hudson Valley has a story that would surprise you. This is a podcast for getting to know your neighbors. We’re stripping away the surface level to find the human heart of our region, proving that even the person next door has a journey worth sharing. Discover your community all over again.

This podcast is one you don't want to miss! We cover life -- from parenting to finances and everything in between! Listen in for an honest view of today's obstacles -- even if it is TMI! 

Corea La Buena es un podcast sobre cultura y sociedad coreanas presentado por Nhoa Lee y Jen Herranz, contado desde un punto de vista crítico y fresco. Y para frescas, nosotras. - Apóyanos en Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/corealabuena - Síguenos en Twitter: https://twitter.com/LaBuenaCorea - Síguenos en Instagram: https://instagram.com/LaBuenaCorea

On a sunny May morning, social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother's belongings after her recent funeral. In the basement she makes a shocking discovery - two dead girls curled into the bottom of her mother's chest freezers. She remembers a pair of foster children who lived with the family in 1988: Casey and Jamie Cheng - troubled, beautiful, and wild teenage sisters from Vancouver's Chinatown.

From Knopf Canada's New Face of Fiction program - launching grounds for Yann Martel's Life of Pi and Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees - comes this powerfully evocative novel. At age 18, Seid Quan is the first in the Chan family to emigrate from China to Vancover in 1913. Paving the way for a wife and son, he is profoundly lonely, even as he joins the Chinatown community. Weaving in and out of the past and the present, The End of East pieces together the spellbinding tale of Seid Quan's family.

On a sunny May morning, social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother’s belongings after her recent funeral. In the basement, she makes a shocking discovery - two dead girls curled into the bottom of her mother’s chest freezers. She remembers a pair of foster children who lived with the family in 1988: Casey and Jamie Cheng - troubled, beautiful, and wild teenaged sisters from Vancouver’s Chinatown. After six weeks, they disappeared; social workers, police officers, and Jessica herself assumed they had run away.

The experience of motherhood is monumental, yet rarely discussed in connection with literary or creative life. How do we navigate the twin devotions of love and art? How does motherhood disrupt the creative process? How does it enhance it? Good Mom on Paper is a collection of twenty essays that goes beyond the clichés to explore the fraught, beautiful, and complicated relationship between motherhood and creativity. Honest and intimate, critical and hopeful, this collection offers solace and joy to creative mothers and asks how we can better support their work.

Single mother Alice Chow is drowning. With a booming online cloth diaper shop, her resentful teenage daughter Luna, and her screen-obsessed son Luca, Alice can never get everything done in a day. It’s all she can do to just collapse on the couch with a bottle of wine every night.

Welcome to The Unapologetically Imperfect Life Podcast, the podcast for women who are done pretending to have it all together while their hormones, to-do lists, and executive function are running wild. I'm Jen Lee Morse, Perimenopause & ADHD Coach, here with your honest, mildly sweary guide through the chaos of midlife. This show is where high-functioning meets absolutely fried. If you're navigating perimenopause, ADHD, chronic stress, or just life as a woman who's sick of the pressure to "keep up," you're in the right place. Each week, we dive into the real stuff that affects how you feel, ...

Gus Van Sant’s film and the ’90s cult of the alternative Gus Van Sant’s 1991 indie darling My Own Private Idaho perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being different was better than being good. Gentlemen of the Shade examines how the film was a coming-of-age for a generation of young people who would embrace the alternative and bring their outsider perspectives to sustainability, technology, gender constructs, and social responsibility.